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by jghn 5mo ago
The OP? They're not AI, they've been active on X and bsky for years.
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by jghn 5mo ago
Perhaps that's location dependent. I was just there and was taken aback by how many more people I saw smoking than where I live in the US. Still not as much as southern or eastern Europe, but more than the large US city nearest me.
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by jghn 5mo ago
Something similar happened to me. I told those groups to pound sand because they knew they were relying on something which they should not. Manager had my back, they whined a lot but they had to change and improve their processes.
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by jghn 5mo ago
A large problem in discourse like this is relative terms. Specifically what people consider to be "city" or "urban" vs "suburban" vs "rural". I live in an area of the US that the vast majority of US c
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by jghn 5mo ago
I agree that people don't give this explanation enough credit. I was online in that age group by the late 80s. Just as in your story, that started me down a path of not going outside as much, even though the other kids would be outside
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by jghn 5mo ago
These lawsuits need to be charged against the police pension funds, not the city coffers
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by jghn 5mo ago
iTunes Match. It's entirely your own stuff. You pay for it, or upload your own stuff you have from elsewhere. You own it. You stream it wherever.
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by jghn 5mo ago
Why not rent a car for those 4-5x/year?
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by jghn 5mo ago
The built in debugger & profiler are the big thing above LSP equivalence for me. I know it can be done, but it's not the same.
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by jghn 5mo ago
Beavis & Butthead. The best part was the music videos with their commentary.
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by jghn 5mo ago
We're using different metrics here. Can it cause bugs? Yes. Do teams ship production code that meet their business goals? Also yes. The former doesn't necessarily preclude the latter. And as long as the business keeps on trucking
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by jghn 5mo ago
> I can hammer a nail with a rock well enough in a pinch The original post to which I responded said "it's disastrous for code that requires development by a team". Anyone claiming that using Python in a production environ
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by jghn 5mo ago
I have the same model and have been using it as my personal laptop all along just fine. Doing my day job on it is a bit of a headache but I can do it in a pinch. People who say it’s impossible to use a 8gb MacBook are being obtuse
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by jghn 5mo ago
I'm in the US. I have 4 different appointments that are in 2027 because the relevant specialists book that far out.
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by jghn 5mo ago
> But I also think it's clear that tool design impacts quality, safety, and efficiency Yes, to an extent. And it's also the case that it usually doesn't matter. And that's my point. I have also been someone like GP po
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by jghn 5mo ago
When they had to shift to x86 there was more to it than MS being jerks. At the time, hardware companies would write the device drivers for Windows, but nothing else. If you were an alternative OS you had to provide your own. And since the c
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by jghn 5mo ago
> it's disastrous for code that requires development by a team Honestly, my experience over (mumbles) decades has been that this argument has been trotted out hype cycle after hype cycle for different paradigms and languages, and i
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by jghn 5mo ago
This happened at an old employer of mine. We started to go down the FP road, veering off the standard OOP of the day. About 25% of the people picked it up immediately. About 50% got it well enough. And 25% just thought it was arcane wizardr
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by jghn 5mo ago
Wait until Elon sees one of their products is called HyperLoop
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by jghn 5mo ago
> strong typing Python is a strongly typed language. Strong and Static typing aren't the same thing.
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by jghn 5mo ago
I imagine because it reads like one of those "Big Medicine won't let you have access to stuff that works!" conspiracy theories, and also that it won't actually foster new brain cell growth.
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by jghn 5mo ago
I agree and I believe that's what has been happening. In another post I mentioned an increase of type inference & related technologies. For instance, one annotates the type signatures for inputs & outputs of a function as well
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by jghn 5mo ago
> How valid are these certificates in the real world? Outside of some very rare outlier cases, 0%. The value is the potential knowledge you gained helping you to jumpstart other things. Employers don't value them at all.
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by jghn 5mo ago
> I can't imagine how this trend reverses course now. That's exactly what those/you dynamic zealots were telling people like me 15 years ago :-) But yes, I largely agree with you. My $0.02 is that the larger pendulum over
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by jghn 5mo ago
> The static vs dynamic language debate is decisively over and static has won I wouldn't be so fast. It wasn't that long ago that the dynamic zealots were declaring victory. And before that the static zealots. And before that t
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by jghn 5mo ago
Yes, same. In the late 90s through early aughts then I was taught over and over and over again that neural networks were a dead end concept and would never amount to anything. Just like all the preceding AI booms, this one will hit its maxi
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by jghn 5mo ago
> Who do the cop haters call when thieves are breaking into their home with guns? For one thing it doesn't happen that much in the first place. In 2024 the rate was 229.4 per 100k in the USA [1] And yet this always gets cited as som
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by jghn 5mo ago
Where I live this has also created a secondary debate. Due to union laws, when these jobs are handed off to non-police, the municipality must still pay the prevailing wage, aka what the cops were getting paid. Here it's required to hav
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by jghn 5mo ago
Teachers aren't a paramilitary force employed by the state.
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by jghn 5mo ago
> what do you expect? If the prediction strength is below X, put an indicator that it couldn't make a valid prediction?

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